Battery container



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BATTERY CONTAINER Filed Nov, 8, 1934 Zug/, |lll ja/and f Ea/Uh f77 z5 la Patented Oct. 8, 1935v 2,016,916 BATTERY CONTAINER Roland A. Wentworth,

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Hood Rubber Company, Inc.,

Waltham, and Ralph Ed- McCurdy, Wellesley, Mass., assignors to Watertown,

Mass., a corporation of Delaware Application November 8, 1934, Serial No. 752,100 2 Claims. (Cl. 20S-2) This invention relates to containers for storage batteries and more especially to multiple-celled one piece molded containers.

'I'he principal or use thereof.

description and object of the invention is to prent breakage of the jars during the manufacture the lfollowing the accompanying drawing.

Of the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation in its preferred broken away an Fig. 2 is an en Fig. 3 is a side tainers placed in integrally moul showing the container form, part of the container being d part shown in section.

d elevation of the same.

elevation of a plurality of concontiguous relation.

the drawing, the container comwall I0, parallel side walls II, I2, I3, I4, and partitions I5, I6, all ded from hard rubber or other composition to provide a plurality of cells I1, I8,

I9. Depressions to provide means 20 are formed in the end Walls for lifting the container.

In order to prevent breakage of the jars due to localized pressure when the containers are placed in contiguous relation on a plane surface V-shaped spaces 23, 24,

Istarting of cracks at lsuch positions.

will separate the containers at their upper and lower edges respectively, preventing the application of laterally applied pressure at the upper and lower edges and corners through the series of containers. reduction in thickness is accomplished by a gradua1 tapering of the walls from the thickened zone 22 toward the top and bottom on all four sides of the container. This provides a thickened central zone extending entirely around the container, 10 which prevents contact of all corners and edges at the top and bottom of the container no matter which sides are brought into contiguous relation, thereby preventing chipping of the corners and We claim:

1. A battery container comprising a multiplecelled one-piece jar having substantially vertical interior wall faces and provided with a thick horizontal In the preferred form of the device the s' 

